IN RE WILSON

No. 93-240.

648 A.2d 648 (1994)

In re Alexis G. WILSON and Terrence M. Wilson.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

July 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles T. Shea, Dennis R. Pearson, Craig Weatherly and Lucy T. Brown of Gravel and Shea, Burlington, for appellant Grace Pomerleau.

James W. Murdoch of Murdoch & Hughes, Burlington, for appellee Randall Wilson.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and GIBSON, DOOLEY, MORSE and JOHNSON, JJ.


JOHNSON, Justice.

Mother appeals from a decision of the superior court reversing the probate court order granting her petition to change the surnames of her children, Alexis and Terrence, from their father's surname to her birth name, Pomerleau. Mother argues on appeal that the superior court (1) improperly employed a presumption in favor of father's surname, (2) did not use a sufficiently broad set of factors to determine the children's best interests and improperly...

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